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• Most readers, then and now, have at some time experienced the humiliation of being told that their occupation is reprehensible.

  Alberto Manguel

  Occupation, Reader

  "A History of Reading". Book by Alberto Manguel, 1996.

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• If a friend of mine gave a feast, and did not invite me to it, I should not mind a bit. but if a friend of mine had a sorrow and refused to allow me to share it, I should feel it most bitterly. If he shut the doors of the house of mourning against me, I would move back again and again and beg to be admitted so that I might share in what I was entitled to share. If he thought me unworthy, unfit to weep with him, I should feel it as the most poignant humiliation.

  Oscar Wilde

  Friendship, Moving, Doors

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• But what a humiliation for me when someone standing next to me heard a flute in the distance and I heard nothing, or someone standing next to me heard a shepherd singing and again I heard nothing. Such incidents drove me almost to despair; a little more of that and I would have ended my life - it was only my art that held me back.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Art, Distance, Loss

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• A woman in agony of spirit might turn her head just so; a man in deep humiliation probably would wring his hands in such a way. From straws like these, drawn from completely different sources, the fabric of a character may be built.

  Eleanor Robson Belmont

  Character, Men, Hands

  Eleanor Robson Belmont (1957). “The Fabric of Memory”

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• The Auschwitz praxis was based on a new principle: for one portion of mankind, existence itself is a crime, punishable by humiliation, torture, and death. And the new world produced by this praxis included two kinds of inhabitants, those who were given the "punishment" and those who administered it.

  Emil Fackenheim

  Punishment, Two, Holocaust

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• I admit there’s an element of brutality in all my work - it’s part of the truth about human existence I always want to explore - but the last thing I’m trying to do is put on some kind of freak show, inviting people to get off on other people’s pain and humiliation.

  Todd Solondz

  Pain, People, Trying

  Interview with Sigrid Nunez, www.believermag.com. February 2005.

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• Christianity is strange. It bids man recognise that he is vile, even abominable, and bids him desire to be like God. Without such a counterpoise, this dignity would make him horribly vain, or this humiliation would make him terribly abject.

  Blaise Pascal

  Men, Desire, Strange

  Blaise Pascal (1910). “Thoughts, Letters, and Minor Works”

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• The humiliation of the North is complete and overwhelming.

  Benjamin F. Wade

  Overwhelming

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• My philosophy is: if you don't bear a cross, you can't wear a crown so you gotta go through some form of humiliation to reach tribulation.

  Peter Tosh

  Philosophy, Crowns, Bears

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• In the twenty-five years that have passed since the ending of the World War when the people of this country emerged from generations of humiliation under foreign occupation, we have accomplished much to our credit, overcome many difficulties and changed the course of our history.

  Tunku Abdul Rahman

  Country, War, Years

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• Egyptians are like camels: they can put up with beatings, humiliation and starvation for a long time but when they rebel they do so suddenly and with a force that is impossible to control.

  Alaa Al Aswany

  Long, Camels, Rebel

  FaceBook post by Alaa Al Aswany from Nov 26, 2012

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• You're allowed to make things for women on television and there's not like... you don't have to go through the humiliation of having made something directed at women. There it's just accepted, whereas if it's a feature, it's like 'So, talk to me about chick flicks.'

  Callie Khouri

  Television, Like You, Accepted

  "'Nashville’s' Callie Khouri: 'Watching two women go at it is boring'" by Willa Paskin, www.salon.com. October 21, 2012.

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• The holy book is implanted in the hearts and minds of all the Muslims. Humiliation of the holy book represents the humiliation of our people.

  Hamid Karzai

  Book, Heart, People

  "11 Injured in Protests Against Qur’an Burning". www.thestar.com. September 10, 2010.

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• Humility is a safeguard against humiliation.

  George H. Brimhall

  Humility

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• No one is able to produce a great work of art without experience, nor achieve a worldly position immediately, nor be a great lover at the first attempt; and in the interval between initial failure and subsequent success, in the gap between who we wish one day to be and who we are at present, must come pain, anxiety, envy and humiliation. We suffer because we cannot spontaneously master the ingredients of fulfillment.

  Alain de Botton

  Art, Pain, Envy

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• I know I'm not going to write as well as I used to. I no longer have the stamina to endure the frustration. Writing is frustration - it's daily frustration, not to mention humiliation.

  Philip Roth

  Writing, Frustration, Used

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• I feel like if I won an award and I was giving my speech and the music started, that's all I'd remember, the humiliation I felt when the music started. It would mar the entire experience for me.

  Seth Rogen

  Awards, Giving, Mars

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• With this sweet hope of ultimate acceptance with God, I have always enjoyed much cheerfulness before men; but I have at the same time laboured incessantly to cultivate the deepest humiliation before God.

  Charles Simeon

  Sweet, Acceptance, Men

  Charles Simeon, William Carus, Charles Pettit McIivaine (Bp.), Daniel Wilson (1847). “Memoirs of the life of the Rev. Charles Simeon ...: with a selection from his writings and correspondence”, p.518

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• The revival of Islam dates from the early years of the 20th century. It was brought about by their humiliation, by their sense of how low they'd fallen compared with the West.

  John Keegan

  Years, Islam, West

  "Foreign Correspondent" with Jennifer Byrne, (ABC, Australia), October 10, 2001.

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• Part of growing up spiritually is learning to be grateful for all things, even our difficulties, disappointments, failures and humiliations.

  Mike Aquilina

  Growing Up, Disappointment, Grateful

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• Most acts of assent require far more courage than most acts of protest, since courage is clearly a readiness to risk self-humiliation.

  Nigel Dennis

  Courage, Self, Risk

  Nigel Forbes Dennis (1949). “A Sea Change”

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• The humiliation I go through/when I think of my past/can only be described as grace./We are created by being destroyed.

  Franz Wright

  Past, Thinking, Grace

  Franz Wright (2009). “Walking to Martha's Vineyard”, p.56, Knopf

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• It just makes it even harder for people to even approach the (open source) side, when they then end up having to worry about public humiliation.

  Linus Torvalds

  People, Worry, Sides

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• For more than two centuries our foreparents labored here without wages; they made cotton king; and they built the homes of their masters in the midst of brutal injustice and shameful humiliation - and yet out of a bottomless vitality our people continue to thrive and develop.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Kings, Home

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.104, Beacon Press

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• There is nothing for which men ask to be paid dearer than for humiliation.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Pain, Men, Suffering

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.170, Courier Corporation

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